Posted on 09/02/2015 10:56:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Here in The South, we have ‘Tree Farms’ of pine trees used for pulp wood. They are planted in rows just like any other crops and are way denser than the normal forest.
They are genetically selected trees provided by the paper companies, for fast growth and straightness of trunks.
My brother-in-law had a summer job back in 1977 when he was 16, planting these types of trees on recently cleared swampy forest land.
Those trees he planted have grown, been harvested and new trees planted in their place and are ready to be harvested again.........................
Professor Wilhelm Augustus von Liebwinkel-Gonzalez of the famed Prague Institute of Forestry postulates that an insufficient number of the world's population were paying attention during Monty Python's first season, which featured the highly educational guide 'How To Recognize Different Types Of Tree From Quite A Long Way Away'.
I confess to being a frequent offender when it comes to overlooking trees. There's a common larch in my neighbor's yard that I thought was an accordion. Now I understand why I always got bark under my fingernails when I tried to play Lady of Spain on it.
Dog-paddling in the shallow end of the gene pool, I remain,
SM
When I was in Germany, back in 2000, We were driving thru a rural area on a narrow road, with huge trees lining both sides of the road very close to the road surface. There were signs spaced about every hundred feet or so that depicted a car smashed into a tree and a red circle with a line thru it, and some German words under it. It’s meaning was clear: DO NOT RUN INTO TREES!.............
Most were dwarf's...
About the only thing I miss about SoCal.
They thought those trees were just fellow liberals
THe death of the American Chestnut and the extinction of the Passenger Pigeons are not linked. This extensive article on their demise says that their prime food was acorns and beechnuts. Pigeons were well on their way out decades before 1904, and it was people and the railroads that did it according to this:
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
Another aspect that I read a while ago is that they needed a flock of a certain size to stimulate their breeding hormones. By the time they only had a few specimens left, they could no longer promote breeding. If they try to restore the PP, they will have to build a big enough flock to create that stimulus. A major task.
This link from the American Chestnut Foundation answers many questions: http://www.acf.org/Q&A.php
Here is one commercial source that claims resistance. Unfortunately, they only deliver to some states. However they have extensive material on how, when, where to grow them, diseases, etc.: http://www.chestnuthilltreefarm.com/?gclid=CN_EjMvp28cCFUcXHwodxvMAGg
This Georgia based company mentions no restrictions on shipping: https://www.willisorchards.com/product/american-chestnut-tree#.VejBEflVikp
The impression I get is that while there might not be certified resistant Chestnut trees, you can manage to grow them, especially if your soil is not already infected. The grow quickly and start producing early and are not extinct, merely rare in the wild.
They used to roost and mate in eastern Michigan (among probably other places); their carcasses were in big demand as the primary source of squab, and they just sat on the branches making sounds. Mowing them down with shot was a way of earning a living (probably a kind of poor one) and recovery of the species was difficult because lumbering cleaned out nearly the entire state before 1920 (the last big old-growth tree around here was about three or four miles west, and was cut before US involvement in WWI).
Well, sure, we got the current number of trees wrong by over 600 percent, but we DEFINITELY know the number of trees at the beginning of human civilization!
Of course, in the evolution of the planet, crops, plants, shrubs, etc all may be nature's intended replacement for trees, but Liberals know better, and will ensure that their plans pre-empt Nature or mankind. Their faith is stronger than either of those enemies.
A—At night they do. During the day, they give off oxygen.
Leave it to a FReeper to split hairs and assault us with useless details. LOL
(Thanks)
Don’t forget this important part of that...
“While they are growing, they take up more carbon dioxide overall than they give out”
I suspect it’s a good deal more.
**** “7.5x more than scientists thought” ****
And that is just in my back yard
I gather you are not familiar with the Younger Fill and the argument Emmett Scott gave for its origin in his book Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited.
There is a layer of silt in the Mediterranean that dates to the rise of Islam, and, Scott argues, provides archaeological evidence for Pirenne's thesis that the rise of Islam was the cause of the Western European Dark Ages. A great deal of modern desert in North Africa and Palestine had been the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, and its desertification was cause by overgrazing after the Muslim conquest -- Muslims taking the attitude that land, including agricultural land, owned by non-Muslims was grazing range for the herd animals of Muslims. Wind erosion of the overgrazed former farms created the Younger Fill, and left behind the modern deserts of Palestine and coastal Libya.
Desert expansion is, sometimes the result of human activity, in the form of overgrazing in already arid, but not quite desert, conditions.
Yes, I’m familiar and I don’t buy it.
There’s no way they had herds large enough to over graze that region.
This is more population control crap.
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